“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is...and to forgive… — Donna Ball Copy Share Image
The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were,… — Donna Ball Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to… — Donna Ball Copy Share Image
Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane… — Donna Ball Copy Share Image
“Mothers have to pretend to be perfect[.] If we didn't, anarchy would rule the world. But most of the time we're just doing the… — Donna Ball Copy Share Image
“She was the quintessential twenty-first-century woman: She could build a high-rise in a Chanel suit and Jimmy Choos, give lessons in multitasking, and freeze… — Donna Ball Copy Share Image
“...when the Gods finished creating woman, they stood back and looked at what they'd done. They had given her a body strong enough to… — Donna Ball Copy Share Image
“All my life, I thought I was this independent woman. I was on all the right committees, made speeches for all the right causes,… — Donna Ball Copy Share Image
My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less… — Donna Ball Copy Share Image
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